My Crush Isn't Him
Everyone thinks his love poems are for the hockey captain — but the tutoring sessions are what he cannot deny.
Aaron has camped at every hockey game for three years, too scared to talk to the star he actually watched from the stands. Then his notebook falls open and the whole rink reads the initials wrong: CB, Caleb Brooks, the captain. Caleb is furious at being the joke, and his mother hires Aaron as a tutor — leveraging Caleb's national training camp to make him study. Two guys who insist they are straight are now trapped in daily tutoring, and the ice and the glances give both of them away.
My Crush Isn't Him is available on SagaBox through its official player.
About the show
Source: SagaBox official drama page & player — editorial coverage based on the opening arc; series details verified 27 Oct 2026.
The rink is Aaron's safe distance. He camps at every game, too close and too far. "For three years, I've been too scared to talk to him. Just getting to watch him quietly like this makes me happy enough." The object he watched was Connor — "just as gentle as he was when we were kids."
Then the notebook falls. Aaron writes love poems, CB, and the room reads it as Caleb Brooks, the captain. Aaron defends himself — Caleb is totally straight, he is not into guys, yeah, I'm straight. But the rumor is already set, and Caleb is furious at being the joke. The forced proximity arrives through Caleb's mother, who has hired Aaron as the tutor. The leverage is his hockey career: flunk another final and Aaron calls the coach and pulls him from next month's national training camp.
Inside the room the walls come down. Caleb accuses him: "You used tutoring as an excuse to get close to me." But the ice and the glances give both of them away. "You come watch me play often, nerd?" Two straight guys, a poem nobody expected, and a tutoring schedule neither of them can walk away from.
Meet the characters
Aaron
Dark-haired, broke, parents gone young. He camps at every hockey game too scared to speak to his crush. He needs the tutoring job to get by, and defends his privacy when the notebook is exposed.
Caleb
Red-haired, bristly, top of his game, pressured by his father. He resists the tutoring at first, insists he is 100% straight, and treats the training-camp threat as the only reason to study at all.
Connor
Gentle on the ice, familiar since childhood. Aaron moved away and they ended up at the same college again. The whole misunderstanding starts because everyone sees Aaron at the rink and assumes the poems are for the captain, not the star he actually watched.
Standout beats
Aaron's love poems are exposed. The room reads "CB" as Caleb Brooks, the captain, and the whole rink misreads the initials at once. Aaron insists Caleb is straight and so is he, but the rumor is already set.
"For three years, I've been too scared to talk to him. Just getting to watch him quietly like this makes me happy enough." The crush he actually had was Connor, the gentle star from his childhood.
Caleb's mother hires Aaron as the tutor. If Caleb flunks another final, Aaron calls the coach and pulls him from next month's national hockey training camp. Aaron begs to stay — he is orphaned and needs the job.
"You come watch me play often, nerd?" Two straight guys, a tutoring room, and the wrong crush everyone assumed. The ice and the glances give both of them away.
Key moments
Frames from the opening arc — swipe to browse.
Editor's take
Our editors' notes on the opening arc — personal picks, not audience feedback.
Everyone reads the initials wrong in scene one, and by episode two Aaron and Caleb are trapped in daily tutoring. Every scene after that is two straight-seeming guys in a room denying what the audience already sees.
He is written as a guarded orphan, not a confident lead. He watched from the stands for three years, he needs the tutoring job to get by, and he defends his privacy when the notebook is exposed.
He is allowed to be bristly and pressured — the training-camp threat is real, and his "stay far away" is the wall that has to come down. The show leans into the college-hockey glow.
Best for viewers who like college hockey gay romance with a misread-poem forced-proximity hook; if you need an established couple early, this one spends its opening act building the wall. Compared with most campus shorts, the loaded object is a notebook of wrong initials rather than a grand gesture — that quiet misunderstanding is both its strength and its limit.
Quick answers
The official player confirms 39 episodes in total.
The series plays on SagaBox through its official player; the Watch Now link on this page opens it directly in your browser.
For three years he quietly watched hockey star Connor. The poems got misread as being for the captain, Caleb Brooks.
Caleb's mother hires Aaron as a tutor, leveraging Caleb's national hockey training camp to make him study. Aaron needs the job because his parents passed away young.
Both insist they are straight at the start. The show is about the wall coming down, not about a label. We won't spoil where it lands.
Connor is the hockey star Aaron quietly crushed on for three years — the misunderstanding starts because everyone assumes the poems were for the captain instead.
